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• Operations Manager / ADC Theatre / East

  23-06-2019 20:06
  The Executive Committee of the ADC Theatre wish to appoint a full-time Operations Manager from September 2019 - August 2020.
  The ADC Theatre is a department of the University of Cambridge. The...
  
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• Paint Dudley - free signpainting workshops and events / Eye Candy Dudley / West Midlands

  23-06-2019 18:04
  Wednesday 26th June / Thursday 27th JuneSIGN WRITING WORKSHOP WITH DAN GRIFFIN-HAYESVenue: Gather, 65 High Street (workshop space) 
From 1-3pmJoin Dan for a 2 hour introduction to sign writing....
  
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• Business Skills for Artists, 2 day course / M+R / London

  23-06-2019 16:48
  ‘BUSINESS SKILLS FOR ARTISTS’
  2 day course run by M+R mussonretallick.com 
  WHAT IS IT?
  This is business advice for artists given by artists.
  The 2 day course is a sharing...
  
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• Call for Applications: Artists International Delegation / Castlefield Gallery / North West

  23-06-2019 16:36
  Castlefield Gallery and a-n The Artists Information Company invite contemporary visual artists living and/or working in the North West of England to apply to be part of a jointly programmed...
  
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• Take me to the Boom Boom Room! Inside the risqué hotel for 24-hour party people

  23-06-2019 16:00
  America’s raciest hotel chain has turned a boring British office block into an Austin Powers-style crash pad complete with retro reception, leftie library – and rooftop baths. Groovy baby!When the clerks of Camden’s highways department were issuing parking fines from their gloomy office in the 1970s, little can they have imagined that jet-setting hipsters would one day be supping cocktails in the public library below them before taking an al fresco dip up on the roof. Maligned
  
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• Yorkshire sculpture festival hopes to be a force for change

  23-06-2019 15:14
  Event arguably makes Leeds and Wakefield area best place in Europe to see sculpture“When we started here, no one thought it was a good idea,” says Peter Murray, the director of Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), as he sits in the cafe that overlooks the rolling 202-hectare (500-acre) estate that opened to the public in 1977.Back then politicians weren’t interested, local residents and businesses didn’t understand it and the only people in favour seemed to be artists, says Mu
  
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• 'What Days We're Having Now': a poetry show in Bristol / Jaybird Live Literature / South West

  23-06-2019 13:03
  A new poetry show featuring Alex MacDonald, Ella Frears and Will Harris
  When you’re on an adventure, you need a map
  Take one last look at your teenage bedroom - its floordrobe and cereal...
  
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• Workshop - Create a Colourful Poster Collage With Naomi Vona / / London

  23-06-2019 12:32
  DescriptionCome join the Italian artist Naomi Vona for a Saturday afternoon of collage fun.The event will be focused on altering by hand vintage portraits printed on a large scale (A3 and A4 size),...
  
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• Workshop - From Fashion Ad To Protest, Doodle Art / / London

  23-06-2019 12:29
  What happens when we turn the purpose of a fashion advertising image into a more deep and meaningful message? During the event we will explore the infinite possibilities in doodling over a magazine...
  
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• Workshop - Pride Poster Collage with Naomi Vona / / London

  23-06-2019 12:24
  In conjunction with The Other Art Fair and the annual Pride in London parade, Italian artist Naomi Vona will run a collage workshop using vintage pride print portraits. Participants will use washi...
  
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• Baroque feminist, pope’s lover … the woman behind a lost Velázquez

  23-06-2019 09:59
  Donna Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj rose to the heights in the Vatican. Now a work by Velázquez, unseen since 1724, is set to fetch millions at Sotheby’sFor almost 300 years, it was thought lost or destroyed. But now a portrait of one of history’s most formidable women by one of the world’s greatest painters has been rediscovered – and it will go under the hammer next month.The Portrait of Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj, painted in the mid-17th century by the Spanish
  
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• Serpentine Pavilion; Antepavilion; Colour Palace – review

  23-06-2019 09:00
  Kensington Gardens; Brunswick Wharf; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  While this year’s Serpentine Pavilion struggles under a cloud of controversy, its leaner London rivals are shiningIf you happen to be in Kensington Gardens during cocktail hour between now and the start of October, the sound of chinking glasses and tinkling laughter will be inescapable, marking the unfolding of the annual corporate fête d’été that is the Serpentine Pavilion. This year’s rev
  
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• Secrets, lies and the girl who disappeared from a British beach

  23-06-2019 09:00
  In an exclusive extract, the Observer’s art critic tells the remarkable story of how her mother was abducted as a child – and how it was covered up
  This is how it began, and how it would end, on the long pale strand of a Lincolnshire beach in the last hour of sun, the daylight moon small as a kite in the sky. Far below, a child of three was playing by herself with a new tin spade. It was still strangely warm in that autumn of 1929, and she had taken off her plimsolls to feel the day&
  
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• Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking review – into the fast lane with humble lino

  23-06-2019 09:00
  Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
  Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and co blazed a trail through 30s Britain and revolutionised the linocut – a true medium for the massesA bus hurtles down Regent Street in the blue haze of dusk. It seems to bend away from the eye on the fast corner towards Piccadilly Circus. The long curve of John Nash’s elegant crescent rises high above, like a cliff face, dark figures silhouetted against the glowing windows of shops far below. It could be Lo
  
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